LAT: Iraq Study Group Report Enrages the Right

[DeepModem Mom]

Report enrages the right
The idea of not having a victory in Iraq — not to mention working with Iran and Syria — incenses conservatives.
By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer
December 7, 2006


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WASHINGTON -- Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh called it "The Iraq Surrender Group."

The conservative New York Post tabloid doctored a front-page photo to depict the co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group in primate fur, under the headline "Surrender Monkeys," inspired by a frequently quoted line from "The Simpsons."

And conservative commentator William J. Bennett vented in volcanic fashion. "In all my time in Washington I've never seen such smugness, arrogance, or such insufferable moral superiority," Bennett wrote on the National Review website. "Self-congratulatory. Full of itself. Horrible."

Howls of protest echoed across the right side of the political spectrum as conservatives voiced dismay with the findings of the bipartisan Iraq panel, released Wednesday.

The commission's report depicts Iraq as a country sliding into chaos, saying conditions are "grave and deteriorating."

Many conservatives agree with that assessment. But the report's other findings and recommendations, which declare the approach they have backed for nearly four years all but bankrupt, clearly struck a nerve with the most ardent supporters of the war....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-right8dec08,0,4368276.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[napi21]

1. This doesn't surprise me, but I think the broad brush name

of conservative is a bit too far reaching. My guess is that this is the reaction of the extreme RW, and they really are different from "conservatives" in general. Ithink there are a lot of conservatives who admire Baker and are ashamed of Shrub. That of course is not going to hit the media!

[neuvocat]

2. So the right-wingers really are anti-military.

It suits them better to let soldiers die just so they can enjoy what little sense of superiority they have.

[Erika]

3. The right wing wants those dead bodies to keep on coming

As O'Reilly says, so 28 million ragheads kill each other, it's a plus.

Baker talks of peace.

[jwirr]

9. Well he will probably get his wish. Even if we manage to get out

of there I think that the "war" will continue between the Arab nations/groups. So he and the weapons industry will still be happy.

[xchrom]

4. how ever will corporate tapeworms like lockheed, kbr,

halliburton manage if they can't get at the taxpayer goldmine?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. You think they won't get government funding if the war ends?

There's plenty of pork to go around!!!

[xchrom]

8. i wasn't being that serious.

they are ''embedded'' as it were.

[llmart]

6. What doesn't enrage those idiots?

That's what they're all about - being "enraged" about something all the time. They live in their own little worlds of being angry about something all the time.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Oh, the irony!

And conservative commentator William J. Bennett vented in volcanic fashion. "In all my time in Washington I've never seen such smugness, arrogance, or such insufferable moral superiority," Bennett wrote on the National Review website. "Self-congratulatory. Full of itself. Horrible."

He could write that on National Review, with a straight face? Wow. I've never seen such a succinct description of NRO.

[Barrett808]

10. My thought exactly.

But after the Bush regime, irony is dead.

[Barrett808]

11. Hate to say it, but anything that divides the GOP makes me smile.

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[THX1138]

12. William J. Bennett

Accusing someone else of "insufferable moral superiority". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now that is priceless. Pot, kettle, black, etc.

[Lisa]

14. "Self-congratulatory. Full of itself. Horrible."

I'm just sitting here, enjoying that. I wonder what would happen if he ever allowed himself to see the irony in those statements, THX1138? Perhaps he would deflate like a large beachball? Or -- more dramatically -- get this "uh oh" expression in his eyes, like the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons, just as he realizes he's walked off the cliff ... and plummet downwards out of the frame?

[bemildred]

13. Cornered rats will lash out. nt